Its hard to have compassion sometimes.
 

I sometimes have certain patients that I start out doing well with, but 3 or 4 hours into the shift I am sorry I cannot have compassion I may need to have. They are the ones who will ring that damn light off the wall I mean every 3 minutes. They want this and they want that, and at some point I will end up telling them "Your not the only patient on this floor, we have 20 other ones who also need our help."

She wanted orange juice so I took her some, then she rang out and said "I can't get this orange juice open" I told her she could open it there was nothing wrong with her hands to keep her from opening it." She said "I thought you were a nice nurse" i said I try to be. :#

I lose it with these kind of people and only people in the medical field could possible understand what its like. The ones who have never worked in a medical field probably think this is terrible way to be. :banghead:

When you have a middle aged person who wets the bed although they don't do it at home and act like they can't walk to the bathroom to me is just being lazy when there is no diagnosis that says they cannot walk.

Ok I am blowing off some steam and it could go on forever:cuss:

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Th-th-th-that's all folks!

I agree I must be out of my damn mind.:grr:

Surprise, surprise, look whos the first one to speak on my thread.

Me thinks everynight claythan waits for you to post and spanks it to your threads. I mean he's got to have the full on blue veined wobbly throbber for you.

:deevee::deevee:

Please God take that visual out of my mind.:eek:

I would but I lack compassion.

:D

o:-)

But, But, Sometimes I'm good.:D

I think you might be in the wrong line of work. You are always complaining about not getting sleep, having to lift people, scared of catching some disease, and now you lack compassion. Seriously. Why do what you're doing if you're so miserable, and you obviously are. You've also complained about how you don't make much, too. Why not go back to selling cars?

You definitely don't need compassion to sell cars.

I never heard her complain when she did it before. She always said how much she liked her job. She's never said that about this one.

Try this response:

"Let's make a deal: I'll live up to your expectations of me as long as you do the things you're capable of doing on your own."

Then, to show how truly nice you are, treat her to her own private showing of the DVD movie "Misery".

Try this response:

"We're out of clean sheets right now and won't have any for a couple of hours."

Then, to show how truly nice you are, treat them to their own private showing of the DVD movie "Misery"...prefaced by you saying: "Let's see what happens to the patient in this movie who cannot walk."

I'm guessing it's because she wasn't very good at the...ummm...selling part.

Which hospital do you work at. I feel the need to shit myself and have someone else clean it up .

Correct.

Badgranny doesn't sound like nurse material.

No doubt. These threads are going to wind up in a court of law when they discover that you are an "angel of mercy."

I have to agree you are in the wrong job. Please, for your sake and the patients, find another line of work.

you're apparently a biatch and a terrible nurse.

This.


I for sure don't know badgirl, so it's probably a commentary on healthcare in general, as may be other people's comments.

It seems that the nursing profession (in our experience) actually attracts those without compassion.

There is certainly a place for disconnected compassionless action in the medical profession. You don't need a crying sympathizing ER/Trauma doc/nurse, you need rapid, objective decision-making.

Having said that, the number cold-fish nurses in the field is astounding.

Maybe this could all be solved with easier to open orange juice? I must agree that those suckers can be brutal. Can they just make that opening tab a bit longer? Would it kill them?

This is how one former Wal-Mart associate felt

hustling cars in this market.... good luck. commission based work.... Steady employment. bite the bullet. speak to your boss.?

If you don't treat the customer well, they won't come back. They'll remove their gallbladders at home or in a local park.

LMAO

Pretend its like having sex, and fake it :D

I knew this one guy who hated his job but said he needed the money for a roof over his head and retirement. He had an heart attack at 33 and died a year ago today, but he smoked and was stressed and tried diet pills.

nurses like you piss me off.... seriously.

I realize some people are bad patients, but you don't know their story. You don't know what they've gone through to be where they are....and all they need is someone to take care of them and care. I know it's a demanding job, since hospitals are understaffed...but try to see them as human beings.

it could be you in that bed and how would you want to be treated?

To them, this is the most expensive resort they'll ever get to go to. You're the wait staff.

My mom and wife are both nurses.

You give them a bad name.

Please quit.

Hamas jenkins ftw.

For what it's worth, my wife is spending the day driving a four hour round trip to see one of her former patients who is in a rehab facility.

She was paralyzed from the neck down in a traffic accident.

She's five years old.

I think a name change is in order to "badnurse".

MODS!!

My friend is the head nurse in a burn unit. She is truly one of the most compassionate people I have ever met. Many nurses can do adequate jobs but it takes someone very special to excel at it.

great lady.

Your wife sounds like a great lady. I'm sure it is worth the trouble to get a positive reaction from any patient, let alone one so young.

I've had sex with a few nurses, and they all hated their jobs.

Worrying about retirement can do that to ya...

i dont see how people can do it. when my oldman died ill never forget the nurses cryin at how crushed i was.

god bless the goodins.

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Go you.

Though also obviously hated their lives and themselves.

Well played. :clap:

ROFLROFLROFL

Pretty much. There's a lot of people out there who hate their jobs. I could care less. It's life. You on the other hand are a nurse, and people depend on you. And it frankly doesn't sound like you give a shit. Please do something else. Anything else that doesn't involve people who need you.

Amen, Ms. Jilly.

Unfortunately, I have had a great deal of experience with hospitals. From UCLA to KUMC and St. Francis in Wichita to Vanderbilt. Trust me. If I can help it, I will never, ever allow myself to be checked into Ms. badgirl's hospital. I don't want to die of a staph infection or from neglect after being served up the incorrect medicine or having an allergic reaction to a treatment.

No thanks.

FAX

I can understand your position as I have a hard time showing compassion with ALOT of your posts.


My wife and several relatives are nurses. You're definitely not cut from the same cloth.

The good news is, your job is to wipe asses, change soiled bedding, dump bedpans and give out sponge bath care.

Maybe you are more suited for stocking shelves at Walmart afterall.

I'd imagine that there are some patients who are real pieces of work, and I could understand how this could get old quickly...

But...you're talking about opening a ****ing thing of orange juice. I can't imagine there are duties more minor than this, so complaining about it casts everything else in a much different light.

Fax is even polite when he's curbing a bitch.

Yep, it's healthcare "professionals" like this that all us of have to look forward to if we ever get sick or god forbid we can't do things for ourselves. Most of them are awesome and sacrifice untold amounts for the good of other people, but this crap makes me nervous to get old or sick.

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ahem hamas has an idea to avoid it

ANTIFREEZE!

...sure, she's probably served it while on duty....

You don't have to be old, Mr. raybec. Or deathly ill, for that matter. The problem is that patients sometimes actually get worse in the hospital. It's difficult to believe, I know, but it happens. I have long declared hospitals to be very dangerous places. I, myself, once had a reaction to an injection at UCLA that stopped my heart. Had it not been for a friend in attendance, I would have died because the onset took several minutes, the docs and nurses had left the room, and I was unable to reach the call light. Close one, that.

I can easily imagine a scenario in which Ms. badgirl decides for herself that a particular patient is being overly demanding and eventually ignores a call light for 10 to 15 minutes and it's during that delay that the patient has a reaction to a medication and chokes to death on their own vomit.

Others have said it better than I, but the attitude described by Ms. badgirl is indicative of a person who should not be responsible for the care of others in an hospital environment. Eventually, someone will die.

Oh. And, by the way, it's called "neglect". Lawyers love that stuff.

FAX

All great points, Mr. FAX.

The long and short of it--what a confusing and worthless cliche, this is--is that some occupations necessitate an actual love of the work. Not because of the money, not because of the hours, not because of any other perceived benefit.

Doctors, nurses, and all the folks that are essential care providers, must first and foremost have a deeply rooted love of their fellow man and an equally deep desire to want to help, in any way possible.

It takes a special calling, I'd say, to be in this line of work.

Someday, badgranny will be laying in her own urine and feces, tapping on the nurse button like its her job. I hope on that day, the half ass CNA taking calls decides to play 1 more game of solitaire before shuffling down to see what the racket is all about.


Those people are someone's mother, father, loved one.

Maybe, they're needy because they're in pain? maybe they're a little off because the pain killers temporarily reerun/cloud their judgement/thinking/temperment?

I remember when my dying grandmother ended up getting some neglectful treatment at a Belton facility, my mom and her sisters stayed pretty much full time and made damn sure everything that was supposed to get done, got done. I remember how sad they said it was for the people that didn't have someone to watch out for them.

Thanks for reinforcing my contempt for hospitals.

I know I couldn't do it, that's for sure, Mr. DeezNutz. However, there are many who can and who do a great job.

I think you're right, though. Ideally, a person who pursues a career in health care should possess a committed desire to assist others, a true love for their occupation, and a diminished sense of smell. It's not for everyone.

Of course, hospitals have any number of systems in place to try and ensure that patients are treated well and not neglected. That doesn't, however, prevent individuals who, for whatever reason, decide that a particular patient is being overly demanding and placing them on the back burner. It's cases like that (which I've experienced first hand) that make you worry. Also, it's a sad fact that care providers eventually become immune to the needs of their patients to one degree or another. You simply can't wear your heart on your sleeve day in and day out. Over time, they begin to view their patients as just another body in a room - not as individual human beings. From a self-preservation perspective, it's natural and actually very normal.

And that's the entire point. Ms. badgirl worries me because it is obvious from her post that she's placing the blame on her patients. Frankly, that's not where the problem lies. Rather, it's her attitude that is wrong and her own mindset that needs adjustment - not the peeps under her care. In my opinion, once a care provider finds themselves dehumanizing their patients, it's time to find another job.

FAX

I will say this though, there is no way....and I mean NO WAY I could be a nurse or a CNA.

But, you have to give yourself credit for recognizing that. Some people are just not smart enough to admit that they are not suited to their career choice and move on.

brideowanian has told too many stories of the types of things she's had to do for tasks in both hospital and public health type settings. There is just no way I could heft a shoulder into a 600lb fupa to push it back so I could clean out and medicate the rotting fold. I just can't see myself cleaning up the "sick smelling" feces of an adult either, mostly because I've got a terrible gag and puke at stink and grossness pretty often.

No way I'm cut out for the CNA work....for $8/hr.

My best friend's wife is a nurse and worked for a few years at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. I was up there for a visit one time, and since he had the day off we just laid around the house all day watching SportsCenter and making up games using bar coasters.
She gets home and notices neither one of us have moved since she left and starts complaining about her day. She says, "I worked with two blind guys and a woman who couldn't speak a word of English today."

My best friend... Without missing a beat...


"so, I guess you won at charades, huh?"


I still get tears in my eyes thinking about it. The comedic timing was perfect. Add to that she didn't even react...

Funny as hell.

Is your asshole still sore or were the boys gentle with you?

most nurses are real bitches

fupu is so much better than front butt

I don't get it.

I've dated alot of nurses over the years, and elementary school teachers and always thought they were basically the same personality type. Most were pretty down to earth and caring people with bubbly personalities.

if that's sarcasm, you can throw social workers into the mix.

Wrong part of the country. I have a friend doing it here in Seattle and she's making 45k a year. Or, about $22 an hour. Plus shift differential and all sorts of other perks.

its not sarcasm. I've always liked nurses. It doesn't mean I like all of them and it doesn't mean there aren't some that are angry bidges.

Nurses make pretty good money flop, its the CNA(butt wiper Americans) that make paper hat bucks. They're not usually the same breed as nurses, with the exception of those working their way through nursing school. See thread starter.

Oh, I know. This girl is a CNA, wiping asses, cleaning puke, and making 45k a year. I shit you not. (Pun intended) I agree with you though, if you don't like the job, in this case especially, get the **** out and go flip burgers or whatever else you can do. These people NEED you. Not quite the same as the fat ass mouth breather that NEEDS his Angry Whopper.

Thats seems like a lot compared to what they make in this area, however I'd estimate that the cost of living in your area is significantly higher, making everything else relative.

Obviously, a gentleman shouldn't discuss the quality of his lovers, but in the interest of good Planeteering, I admit that I, too, have participated in sexual encounters with nurses in the past, Mr. seclark. Frankly, I had misgivings about it. I mean, those were the same hands that dealt with some of the most highly unpleasant aspects of personal behavior. Kinda creepy, to be honest.

Nevertheless, I found them to be very uninhibited in bed which I chalked up to a familiarity, comfort, and interest in human anatomy, so I guess it's kind of a trade off.

Overall, I would rate nurses as a 6 or 7 on the occupational sex scale.

FAX

you & sec had sex?

If only the drug companies would release the cure for whatever disease they may have, you'd be in luck.

stupid, lousy hospital patients
- Homer Badgirl Simpson


um, ya think the reason they are wetting the bed in the hospital when they dont do it at home is because OF THAT LITTLE STROKE THEY JUST HAD???????????????

The "Nightingale Pledge"

The Nightingale Pledge was composed by Lystra Gretter, an instructor of nursing at the old Harper Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and was first used by its graduating class in the spring of 1893. It is an adaptation of the Hippocratic Oath taken by physicians.


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I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully. I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug. I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession, and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling. With loyalty will I endeavor to aid the physician, in his work, and devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care.

NOW OPEN THE OLD LADIES FRICKIN ORANGE JUICE YOU HEARTLESS MONSTER!!!!!!!!!!!

I like teachers better. They make you do it over and over until you get it right.

I need a job thats why, theres not much out there these days.

No matter how I feel sometimes, I am good to my patients and they receive excellent patient care from me. I have star cards to prove it.

Every medical professional, including the Drs. I talk to feel this way and if any medical profession says they don't think this way about patients that are a pain i the ass is a damn liar.

Don't get me wrong, there are some patients I would bend over backward for, the ones who are elderly or really sick, I would do anything in the world for, but you don't know about the drug seekers who come in and complain more than the very sick ones.

I have cried with families also, you people don't seem to get it, I feel for the sick patients, but its those who are here for drugs, or in one case to get away from here kids for a while that bugs me. Beleive me I am a very caring and compassionate person for the ones who need me.